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| Hamas accuses Fatah over
stabbing in Lebanese camp TYRE, Lebanon - A Hamas member was fighting for his life after he was stabbed in the head on Saturday at the Rashidieh refugee camp in Lebanon in an attack which the Palestinian Islamist group blamed on rivals Fatah. "When Bassel al-Ashkar, 30, returned home, he was attacked by four members of Fatah who stabbed him in the head and back, then opened fire on his house to terrorise him family," said Hamas official Abu Khaled Jihad. Following the attack at the camp in Tyre, Ashkar was taken to hospital in the southern coastal town where he remained in a critical condition, Jihad added. Hamas militants at the Jebel Amel hospital reported tensions were high in the camp, which according to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees is home to almost 30,000 people. The Hamas official said the attack was related to a recent Fatah decision to ban Hamas militants from hanging photos and banners in honour of friends returning from the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, but gave no further details. The Islamist group seized control of the Gaza Strip in June after a week of deadly clashes with Fatah loyalists. By longstanding convention, the Lebanese army does not enter the country's dozen refugee camps, leaving security to Palestinian militant groups. -Agencies |
